CHITON. 3 



granulatus. 5. Shell with eight depressed valves, 

 granulated in regular rows; margin broad, 

 coriaceous and spiny. 



Chiton granulatus. Gmelin, p. 3205. Wood's Conch, p. 9. 

 Chiton, No. 8. Schroeter Einleitung, iii. p. 505. 

 Chemnitz, viii. t. 96*, f. 806. 



Inhabits the shores of the West Indian Islands. Chemnitz. 



Shell an inch and a half or two inches long, and about two- 

 thirds as broad, and may be at once distinguished from C. 

 piceus, which it most resembles by its regular rows of ele- 

 vated dots. 



aculeatus. 6. Shell with eight striated prickly- 

 valves, and the margin covered with bristles. 



Chiton aculeatus. Linntms Syst. Nat. p. 1106. Schroe- 

 ter Einl. iii. p. 49a. Chemnitz, x. p. 375, t. 173. f. 1692. 

 Gmelin, p. 3202. Bar but, p. b, t. 1. f. 2. Wood's 

 Conch, p. 9« 



Rumphius, t. 10, f. 4. Seba, iii. t. 1, f. 14. Enc. Me- 

 thod, t. 163, f. 6. 

 Inhabits Asia. Linntms. Coasts of Nicobar. Chemnitz. 

 Shell about two inches or two inches and a half long, and 



more than half as bioad, oval, rough on the upper surface 



with subulate, sub-arcuated red unequal prickles, and the 



valves striated. 



fasciatus. 7. Shell with eight valves of which the 

 lower triangular halves of the six middle- 

 most are granulated. 



Chiton fasciatus. Wood's Conch, p. 10. t. 1. f. 4 and 5. 

 Chiton squamosus, Var. @. Gmelin, p. 3203. 

 Chiton fascicularis. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 496. 

 Chiton, No. 1. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 502. 

 Chemnitz, viii. t. 94. f. 792 and 793, and t. 95. f. 801. 



Inhabits the West Indian Seas. Chemnitz. South America. 

 Wood. 



Shell about an inch and a half long, and nearly two thirds as 

 broad : it appears to be perfectly different from either C. 

 squamosus or C. fascicularis, with both of which it has been 

 strangely confounded, and Mr. Wood has judiciously sepa- 

 rated it with the following description. — " The middle valves 

 are elegantly fasciated with brown, and a light streak runs 

 along the keel or ridge, with a darker line on each side ; 

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